Volume 6 DECEMBER, 1965 No.9

NFAA Field Governors QUARTERLY MEETING Mid-Atlantic Indoor Shoot To Vote On Reorganization AGENDA LISTED Announced For January The following items will come before In September ,all NF A,A members were the VBA Board of Directors at the next The Second Annual Mid-Atlantic In- informed by letter of anticipated legisla- quarterly meeting, January 9, 1966. door Open archery tournament has been tion that intends to continue the' theory of announced for January 15 in Baltimore, 1. Officer Reports. the reorganizabion of the NF AA into a Md. Federation 'Of State Associations. 2. Nominating Committee. The tournament will again this year be The proposal will be submitted to the 3. Bid for State Shoot. held at the Sports, Travel and Auto Show NF AA Board 'OfField Governors for a vote in the Baltimore Civic Center. The Sports in January. 4. Order of the Golden Feather. Show will be held January 12 thru Janu- ary 16. 5. NFAA Reorganization. Basically the amendments to .the NFAA Constitution and By-Laws would be: Sanctioned by the Professional Archers 6. Individual item requests: Association and sponsored by the F & M a) Discussion of National Champions 1. .Membership in the NF AA, State and Sohaefer Brewing Company, the tournament Travel Fund. Ternitorial Associations as a condition to re- will award $1,000 in cash prizes. Prizes will b) Discussion of possibiliry of 3-day ceiving a classification card. run from $3'00 to $15 through 10 places for State shoot. the men and $90 to $1-0 through 5 places 2. Administration of aU classification by c) Discussion on the following sug- for women. the State and Territorial Assoc-iations. gestion: Any archer participating in a VBA State Championship Advance registration fee is $10 (includ- 3. A universal membership and classifica- Tournament who shoots a Field or ing admission to the Sports, Travel and tion card supplied through the NF AA. Hunter round score exceeding the maximum for his class by the fol- Auto Show) and th.js registration fee will 4. 'Specific requirements for chartering lowing percentage shall be reclassi- be refunded df you do not appear to' shoot. and recognition 'of the State and Territooial fied automatically into his next Associations, with automatic suspension higher class for the entire tourna- Doors will open at 11: 00 A. M. and the and/or expulsions for non-compliance with ment D Class exceeding by 250/0, C archery tournament will begin at 1:00 P. M. NF AA rules and poJ.ioies. Class by 150/0, B Class by 100/0. A P .A.A. Indoor Round will be shot. 5. Elimination of the NF AA Field Gov- 7. New Business. ernors with representation to be through a For further information write .to : Tourna- Board Member selected by the State Asso- ment Committee, c/o Donald Hughes, 2603 ciation in a manner acceptable to archers Lynbrook Road, Baltimore, Maryland within the state. DEER KILLED AS OF 21222, Tel. area code 301-285-1306 or 6. An annual meeting of the Board of 2,82-0992. Directors to consider and adopt rules and DECEMBER 13 polioies of the NF AA. SIKA DEER Bucks Doe Junior Booth Robert L. Watson C. J. Woods Sherman R. Spence BIG GAME TROPHIES Thomas W. Akins BIG CARP CONTEST Wm. Clingenfeel, Sr. TO BE JUDGED

TO BE HELD WHITE TAIL The V.B.A. Big Game contest will be Bucks Doe judged in }anuary. The contest is for There will be a Big Carp Contest for Tommy Jones John E. Sayers mounted heads or antlers killed with the those Carp taken with bow and arrow dur- Terry McCraw McKilder Smith bow. Anyone wishing to enter should send ing the past year. If anyone has taken J. W. Rodes Ted Grefe them by way of your delegate to the V.B.A. Ir vine Gordon Jerry F. Widner such a trophy, send a note to Harold Street quarterly meeting January 9th. R. F. D. No.4, Box 133, Wytheville, Va., Clyde Hill Irvin L. Bodkin A. Owen Shifflett Tink Nathan, Jr. The contest is not only for V.B.A. mem- stating the weight, place taken and wit- C. L. Barley nessed by 'a fel low archer, First, second and Jerry W. Rodes bers but is open to anyone who has an third place trophies will be awarded. Thomas W. Akins archery kill within the state.

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FLIGHT Richard Hogge, Yorktown 65 Yards Walter Inman, Groton, Conn. News and Views of the Virginia Bowhunters Association, Inc. Richard Magalis, McGaheysville Donald Jobe, Herndon Bob Payne, Herndon James Quarles, Woodbridge VBA OFFICERS: Clinton Western, Clate Phipps, Fredericksburg President 4041 Virginia Ave., N. W., Roa- noke, Va'.; Wyatt Mays, Executive Vice- Clayton Pilchard, Virginia Beach President and Flight Editor, Route 2, Box James Quarles, Woodboidge 80 Yards 333 Madison Heights, Va.; Woody Woods, Co~servation Vice-President, 557 Magnolia (1 and 4 pos.) Walter Inman, Groton, Conn. St., Waynesboro, Va.; Harold Street, Hunt- W. F. Sellers, Staunton ing Vice-President, RFD No.4, .Box ~33, Bobby Kluttz, College Pk. Md. Wytheville, Va.; Bill Marshall, FIeld VIce- Mertie Shultz, Front Royal Thomas Turner, Montvale President, 5{)12 Ituntington Avenue, New- C. B. Stevens, Yorktown port News, Va.; Hugh Darnell, Rec,?rd- ing Secretary, Route 1, Box 399, Spring- William Stillwagon, Richmond field, Va.; Sue D. Price, Corresponding Jesse R. Wilkins, Newport News Secretary, 1712 N. Quincy St., Arlington 7, Va.; C. D. Tarter, Treasurer, Box 78, R. C. V'an Allen, Riohmond NFAA INDOOR ROUND Wytheville, Va.; Ted Grefe, VBA & N.FAA Thomas James, Newport News Field Governor, P. O. Box 352, Fairfax, ADOPTED Richard Hogge, Yorktown _Varrows. The following distances will be Bobbie Souder, Front Royal followed in the order given: Three ends of C. C. Livingston, Hopewell Thomas James, Newport News five arrows at 10 yards; four ends of five Terry McCraw, Radford arrows at 15 yards; and to finish the round Richard Thomasson, Newport News five ends of five arrows will be shot at Doris Woods, Waynesboro 60 Yards 20 yards. A maximum 0'£ 300 points per round may Earl Oney, Bluefield, W. Va. be gained by a perfect score. The target 40 Yards James Quarles, Woodbridge scoring area is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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mers, axes, nails and the like. Bowhunters far as my memory is concerned it might be for the most part in this state are tree- just day before yesterday. dwellers. I had been bowhunfing for a couple of It is said the population growth in the years but was such a beginner in the out- trees of Virginia during the months of doors, I just did not have the hunter-knowl- October and November is tremendous. But edge necessary to down my first trophy. I the keen-minded Whitetail if hunted in this manner for a time realized there are more was in the same circumstance as I men- than just squirrels in those oaks. tioned in the first part of this story, when one of those big oaks moved just a little This all boils down to a true balance to much this time. On turning my atten- between the hunter and the hunted. It has tion to the right, I spied a spike buck often been contemplated what might hap- liesurely grazing on acorns arid moving at pen if the Whitetail had the physical a regular pace toward my tree-stand. powers to shoot the bow and man became the hunted. I am sure there would be less That's when my knees began to shake bowhunters in the woods. I, for one, have and this knee action must have been a -Wyatt Mays Photo hunted the same general area for several signal for the rest of my body a; it also years and have lately been matched in started shaking in the same rhythm. He's THE MOMENT OF TRUTH' staring contests with these beautiful about thirty yards from me now but there is creatures. heavy brush between us. He's then start- ing to make a ninety degree angle away The night before opening day is as muoh from me and I know that if I don't shoot BOWHUNTING part of our traditions as any part could be. now, I'll never see another one. So, I The camp looks the same as it did the year shoot and naturally since I'm an A shooter THE BLUE RIDGE before and still contains that certain air of I hit the smallest thing-a limb about one good things to come. Sitting around the old half inch wide. But this is one thing you can By WYATT MAYS wood stove, every particular hunting experi- say about bowhunting in general. He let ence is rehashed, which only heightens the me shoot my whole quiver full of arrows The crisp morning air sends a chill air of expectancy. No one is very sleepy, before he bounded over the next hill. I through your body which only tends to but we 'all know we have to be very alert guess he knew I needed the added practice ampl'ify the shaky feeling already embed- the next morning to compete with the wild. of shooting at game and after the first ded in you through a feel of anxiety of ad- miss knew he was safe. venturous activities to come. You've been Bef.ore first light appears all is astir in sitting patiently in a lonely but picturesque camp. Insulated underwear is pulled on, There I am with a bow, feeling like no- atmosphere. Your eyes start to play their heavy boots are added, and the cook stove body in the world loves me anymore, and games, inventing imaginary life from inati- smells with the tantilizing odor of bacon with the most disgusting fact of all, I didn't mate objects. and eggs. have any arrows.

This scene is repented so many times, but During the week bowhunting season I knew that one of my hunting buddies still holds all the wonder that it brought to opens in Virginia, the weather seems to was about a hundred yards down The moun- even the novice outdoorsman. Little has develop quite a nip in the air and especially tai; side in another tree and as I wasn't been written or said about bowhunting in so in the Blue Ridge where temperatures, about to get back in my stand without any the Blue Ridge mountain range of Virginia, generally run twenty degrees colder. ammunition, I had to belittle myself with much to the neglect and disappointment of trying to borr-ow more arrows. Well as you sportsmen everywhere. The only collective business of the hunt might know, this buddy wanted all the comes now when we group as we would particulars before giving me more ammuni- in a field tournament rto pick tree-stands Virignia has a bountiful crop of the ever- (Continued on page 4, col. 3) wiary Whitetail. Long and elaborate details and to know exactly wheer everyone will go into the hunt. Even months in advance be. Walking through the woods with a flashlight or the light of the moon to guide impatient bowhunters can be found tearing If It's Archery, We Have It about the countryside to learn of this year's our path, all ears are perched for the habits. T'bis is all a very important part of sounds of frightened deer. After reaching Arrow Head Sport Shop the whole hunting business. Avid bowhunt- your stand, .the sun never seems to want (Just off Roanoke By-Pass-Rt. 117) to appear and you could swear there had ers find as much of a thr ibl in this pre- Shop-362-0297 been a herd standing twenty feet under the season scouting as they do when opening Home-Em 6-9245 day finally arrives. tree. DEALER FOR In the late fall, when nature begins her Its hard to say exactly what kind of Bear Archery Co. United States Tri-State Archery wintertime activities, a curious phenomenon phycological disease overtakes some of us Arohery when the very object of all our toils has Hoyt Mfg. Co. Black Widow Bows overtakes man and his thoughts begin to Damon Howatt wonder to the out-of-doors where he can finally agreed to enter your area, but I Mfg. Co. find absolute peace with the world. guess .that this is the real reason for our Call, Write or Stop By being here in the first 'place. J. W. Rhodes A trip to Virginia's hunting territories a Rt. 2, Box 177-A Roanoke, V1:rginia month before season will find hunters It was only season before last in which treking off laden down with bucksaws, ham- took my first buck with the bow and as PAGE 4 FLIGHT December, 1965

The Rise and Fall REFUND FROM NFAA TRUE STORY FROM Of the V. B. A. AVAILABLE TO. CLUBS BLAND COUNTY Following is a Est of clubs that have The game warden was driving down the paid the NF,AA one dollar for 19'65 and road when he met three hunters. In check- I've heard some talk that I hope is untrue have not requested the refund. 'l\he money ing their licenses, he noted the presence of I,t will mean quite ,a lot to me and you. is in the VBA treasury. If the clubs want alcohol, but not enough to warrant an arrest. it all they have to do is ask for it. If they The hunters told him they saw a bear carry- do not ask for it, VBA will assume they are ing a deer. Laughing it off, the warden con- The number of members in the V.B.A. making a contribution. tinued down the road when he was stopped Is about eleven hundred as of today. by another hunter who told him he had a Club DoIIars a deer strung up. After going to his car to We had eighteen hundred two years ago Augusta Archers ..$ 1.00 get a hatchet, he returned and ;the deer was gone. A loss of seven hundred is what we show. Blue Ridge Archery Club 17.00 And while we're talking ·about hunting 15.00 What caused this drop is all you hear Bowhunters of Rockingham stories, your editor killed a fox who at the time was sitting in a bird's nest in the top In our organization that is so dear? Two Rivers Archery Club 68.00 of ,a Pine tree. Can anyone top that? Manahoac Bowmen 19.00 Some may say, "I do not know" -- But you-can reap only what you sow! Oakwood-F-orest Archers 9.00 BLUE RIDGE New River Valley Archers 47.00 (Continued from page 3, co!. 3) I think we're all somewhat to blame Triangle Bowhunters 34.00 tion to use up. But he was very good about For the tragic loss to this fine game. it as he threw me two broadheads and mut- Walton Park Archers 6.00 tered something like, "he wished he had been there." The rules we ohanged and the ones we Flat Top Archery Club 4.00 As I crawled back into my tree I won- made Seminole Archery Club 5.00 dered, "what's the use," but I didn't want to Would put a smart lawyer in the shade! 11.00 foul anyone else so I decided to sit it out. Indian Mt. Archers I didn't feel so disheartened for very long Most 'of them are somehow deeigned Southampton Bowmen .. 26.00 for two deer walked out of the gorge on my left. One was a doe, the other, 'another To give sandbaggers a kick from behind. Fort Eustis Bowmen 20.100 spike buck. They moved at right angles to me about thirty yards away. This time Bear Creek Bowmen 16.00 Sandbaggers we had, sandbaggers we got I was real mad at myself and I knew that I would have to make a kill after my friends Wythe Bow-hunters 3.00 These asinine rules have mattered not! heard about the previous episode. The Dixie Bowmen 1.00 arrow flew true to its mark and the spike What they've done and of this I'm sure buck ran about eighty yards and dropped. Is to make it more than some' can endure. It was a very proud moment for me but it was almost disappointing for I had ended GALAX BOWHUNTERS my season so quick. Back at camp myoId With

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